Petition To grant automatic right to UK citizenship to all who arrive as child refugees

Data released under the Freedom of Information act showed 734 people granted asylum as children who had since turned 18 were removed from the UK between January 2015 and September last year. Young adults are being returned to war zones, including Afghanistan.

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Hundreds of people have been sent back to unsafe places such as Iraq, Afghanistan and Sudan – which the Foreign Office advises against travelling .Young adults are being returned to war zones, including Afghanistan.The data, requested by the Independent newspaper, revealed 19 people first granted UK asylum aged under 13 were later ejected. A further 222 who were granted asylum between the ages of 13 and 15 also had to leave

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Date closed 6 November 2019
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